Back to Eden was my first introduction to the medicinal herbal world back in the 70s. Notice that I qualified "medicinal herbal"; as much experimentation of other herbs for entertainment was part of the 60s and 70s.

I like this book; because it goes beyond botanical and medicinal information on the herbs. Tonics, treatments, food preparations, etc. are found here too.

WOW! he's beautiful! Don't quote me on this but from what i have read throughout the years is, if they are not handled and loved and always in the cage then they only live about 15 yrs. Now on the other hand, you let them out of the cage, scratch their heads, baby talk to them, and give them a lot of attention, then believe it or not they can live to about 30 yrs. Your boy looks to be a combination of Latino, grey, and pearl. Am I right? I hope this helps.

I know this is way of topic; but I just can't help remembering a friend of mine who had a cockatoo. I would visit him to watch TV; but, ended up watching the bird. The bird loved to "skate" on the glass coffee table. So funny. So cute. It had endless pleasure doing that.

Cockatoos are the most friendly and affectionite bird. They are funny and act just like kids. If you ignore them, they will pull out their feathers. Iv'e been wanting to get one but never really had the space for one. Someday

Thanks Feather,
Sounds like I could have a pet for a long time.
This guy gets incredible amounts of attention and is mostly out of the cage when I'm at home.
Always getting communicated to and practically carries on a conversation at times through his different sounds.
That picture was taken when he was about two or three and looks just as healthy and young today at ten years.
I think your right that he is a combination. He just has that little bit of gray with mostly yellow.
The gray looks more like an accent which I think gives him a nice look.